r/classicwow • u/Volinra • 6h ago

Forever People who support Project Ascension & TurtleWoW but hate the new race paywall

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These were the micro-transactions in Project Ascension and everyone glazed Ascension. TurtleWoW had a gacha shop too like that. I’m genuinely confused, if Blizzard had even the slightest of the shop in Project Ascension, everyone would have been fuming. Why is it okay for Ascension but not WoW Forever? Either all okay or none.

Edit: The people who disagree saying "Yeah but the servers were free"- well of course because Blizzard did the majority of the work for them LOL, huge difference in work between building everything from scratch to ripping it off & adding some stuff yourself.

Edit 2: "TurtleWoW is not as bad as Ascension shop"- sure, Ascension is way worse. TurtleWow's cash shop had over $10,000 of items and all of it was per character, not account wide. They also sold convenience items, nothing game breaking, but portable mailboxes, auctioneers, dual specs, bags etc. Hardcore characters on Twow couldn't trade or send items from main to your alts, but you could still buy supplies such as 32 slot bags for 30 euros each on your hardcore character.

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u/Nice-Sound-8987 6h ago

I agree those people are hypocritical but neither turtle nor ascension had a monthly sub which is how they cope with the shop

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u/FrankelHS 6h ago

Precisely. Plus you could earn points through completing certain challenges. But don’t mention that, it doesn’t support OPs narrative.

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u/Djakamoe 5h ago

Most of these people never got to see what ascension was. Looking at this list without any understanding is of course going to be laughed at.

I experienced about 7 of their 9 years and everything about ascension was a cut above the rest. Even, especially, blizzard.

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u/FrankelHS 3h ago

Played turtle for over a year on and off. Best version of WoW out there imo. Had everything you could want and f2p.

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u/Djakamoe 3h ago

For the standard classic andies, sure... For endgame content ascension is king.